Service-Learning/Community Service as a Strategy for Fostering Student Outcomes

August 2011

This report highlights selected state policies which identify service-learning/community service as a strategy to foster positive student outcomes, including student achievement, civic engagement and workplace readiness.

Service-learning is identified as an instructional strategy to increase student achievement

Service-learning is identified as a strategy to increase student civic engagement

Service-learning is identified as a means of preparing students for the workplace

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

Federal Law

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

American Samoa

Guam

Puerto Rico

Virgin Islands

This database will be updated as we learn of policy changes. If you have comments about the information presented or the database, please contact Ann Rautio at arautio@ecs.org or 303.299.3606. Creation of this database was made possible in part through the support of the State Farm Companies Foundation.

To request permission to excerpt part of this publication, either in print or electronically, please contact the Education Commission of the States’ Communications Department at (303) 299.3609 or askinner@ecs.org.